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I know a lot of the newer members ( myself included ) were offering " stable hand " services to help some of the "monster" barns to open pages or look for a particular gene set and to help organize the barns a bit ; I hope you ll be back :)

they have an auto namer lol ; its on the barn page ; just click the horses and add @* ( I think ) and it autogenerates the names ^_^

This is actually the first month since November that I managed to breed all my horses! So I know that feel. I was really started to get frustrated, and yeah, upset that my fancy horses weren't getting bred as seasons slipped by!

I took some time in there and defined (and combined) some of my breeding lines, and then went through and gave all my breeding horses a name prefix to match the line they're in to organize them. I actually do a little code that tells me line, then generation, then paper level, and that means I can just search my horses and sort them by name and it sorts them into those catagories for me automatically. MU is the code for my mushroom line, so if I were to, say, search for all my mares with a copy of mushroom and then sort by name, it would give me my one GMTed foundie mushroom girl first (MU1B), then my Blue papered gen 2's (MU2A), then my Red papered gen 2's (MU2B), then my Blue papered gen 3's (MU3A), and so on. This way it also sorts them that way in the drop-down menus in the pastures, which makes it much easier to mass-move the right mares around pastures--which is good, because my actual barns and pastures are kind of a mess, lol. Though better than they were! I didn't worry about naming or culling or tattooing overmuch as I did this, just got them all sorted so I could actually look at them.

Once I had that done, then I did a round or five of culling. It's easier to tell what you have and don't have and have too much of when you can just pull up all of one category! For instance, I only have one foundation mushroom stud, so if I had 73 MU1 mares, I'd need to cull about 23 of them since he can only breed 50. I tried to be as ruthless as possible with culling and dumped what didn't sell into the auction. And now I actually have open stalls and organization and breeding is a lot easier.

Since then I've been working on things like naming and tattooing and tacking so that this doesn't become this much of an issue again! I'm making sure to add a prefix to every horse I keep as soon as they're born/bought/created so they end up in the right place and don't get lost in the shuffle.

I'm not sure if any of this will help you or fits in with your own methods, but at least I can sympathize if nothing else! Good luck!

Thank you @Taliesin! I tend to prefer not having "labels" in my horses' names and rather use tattoos for sorting. I have tattoos for each gen as well as tattoos for my major lineages, although that became less important once things like DP became visible and eventually searchable! So then I can search by tattoo either within barns/pastures or from the Search page in the sidebar and stay a bit organized that way. That helps a ton!

I hadn't considered the usefulness of the labels in the names for pasture sorting though. Moving mares around the pastures is definitely a headache so I can see that being extremely helpful!

I'm glad you were able to spend some time getting organized and knowing I'm not the only one who has missed some months breeding definitely makes me feel better :) !

I feel you.

I went through and did a massive cull/organize, sort and name and completely emptied my foal holding barn of horses without prefixes (all my breeding stock have prefixes so I can quickly sort into pastures and barns from the drop down lists.

Then I cleared out my freezer and then I’m not sure what happened but I’ve just hit a block and haven’t been on as much at all. Now I still have a ton of embryos to use from my freezer clearance and my holding barn has refilled. I spent some time culling horses in the last week but I think mostly on HJ2 which was even more behind than here.

Would love to see you back and active again! :x

@HorseAngel: Chimera is the old brindle

https://www.huntandjump.com/forum/discussion/44135/brindle-is-now-chimerism-and-update-to-gene-testing-notation

The comments are great to read and very encouraging, thank you for posting this topic. I was gone for several years and didn't realize i was still paying fees, I just about fainted when i saw how many hb I accumulated. If any of you others need a little injection, let me know. Consider it payback for all the help I'm getting on the forums. And if you're in gift exchange and need something special to give, again let me know.